China license plate: Temporary entry motorcycle

Issued today 1992 to today. Temporary plates for motorcycle, issued by 公安部交通管理局 (Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security). One of 22 China license plates.

China license plate, Temporary entry motorcycle (1992 to today), sample U10369

Format, years and the law

Format
L99999, for example U10369 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Same decode as the temporary-entry car: the ground tint says whether the machine may leave its area; the province character and office letter say who issued the permit.

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
1992 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #CFE4F5
Size
88 × 60 mm · every country's size
About this plate
The temporary-entry motorcycle plate. Modelled separately from the car plate purely because of the dimensions, a 20-fold difference in area is the clearest possible § 2.3 design difference.
How long it is valid
note: as for the temporary-entry car plate, 公安部令第90号 第六条, maximum three months, not extendable

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102419/http://www.hngy.gov.cn/sitepublish/site1/wsbs/lyfwzl/jtfw/jdc/jdcfw/conten...
  2. gov.cn http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2007/content_772748.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is cn-temporary-entry-motorcycle-1992. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of China's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cn \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "cn-temporary-entry-motorcycle-1992")'